The Jade Monkey

     1939.  EUROPE is a boiling caldron of an ever widening war caused by Adolf Hitler’s maniacal dreams of world domination.  Brazil, with it’s vast raw materials, grain and beef coveted by Germany for their war machine, is a country seething with intense German fifth column activity and rumored governmental coups. The government is friendly to  the U. S., must remain so and be assisted against subversion.                                                             

     THE  QUESTIONABLE  ACTIVITIES of a hard-bitten but patriotic Captain of an old freighter, both with a shady reputation, gets he and his first mate embroiled in danger and intrigue in-volving German spies, American undercover agents, takeover plots, and a beautiful European Duchess.  

     AN EXPATRIATE from the Deep South of the United States,“Moon” Mullins rises to the occasion, heroically risks his life and ship, and falls in love with the Duchess ...who is not who she appears to be....